Archive for 'Environmental Policies'
Nikolai Rybakov urges Ministry of Natural Resources to disclose the scale of environmental damage and Baltic Sea pollution following drone strikes on Ust-Luga and Primorsk
Press Release, 9.04.2026 Photo: Smoke-filled sky on the Skandinaviya highway near St Petersburg / Photo by Dmitry Anisimov Yabloko party leader Nikolai Rybakov has sent an official letter to Alexander Kozlov, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, in connection with a series of drone strikes on port infrastructure facilities in the […]
Posted: April 9th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko activist from Ryazan Maria Rakcheeva fined for appealing to the authorities to save lime trees
Press Release, 27.03.2026 Photo: Maria Rakcheyeva in court on 27 March 2026 / Photo by Ryazan Yabloko On 27 March, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Ryazan found journalist and Yabloko party member Maria Rakcheyeva guilty under Article 20.2, Part 2, of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (unlawful organisation of a public […]
Posted: March 27th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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On the Concept of Building a Premium-Class Residential Complex on Bolshaya Ordynka street in Moscow
Statement by the Bureau of the Moscow Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party, 16.03.2026 Photo: The building of the Automatic Telephone Switching Centre as it stands today (left) and the proposed residential complex (right) / Photo: by @Buegvl/Yandex.Panoramas, Archi.ru The Moscow Urban Planning and Land Commission has approved the concept for the construction of a […]
Posted: March 16th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Statement by the Bureau of the Yabloko’s Green Russia Faction, 11.03.2026 Photo: A Yabloko party event in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, on the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, 2012 / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant has entered the history of nuclear energy as one of the largest […]
Posted: March 13th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety.
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Moscow Yabloko holds round table on the civil, political, and economic rights of Moscow residents
Press Release, 18.02.2026 Photo: Round table on the rights of Muscovites / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 17 February, the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party held an extensive round table devoted to the rights of Muscovites. Experts in economics, urban heritage protection, and the electoral and judicial systems gathered at the party’s […]
Posted: February 20th, 2026 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections 2026, State Duma Elections, State Duma Elections 2026, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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A series of domestic dogs poisonings in Moscow: Kirill Goncharov, leader of the Moscow branch of Yabloko demands immediate investigation
Press Release, 26.01.2026 Photo by Nikita Yudin, Kommersant At least seven domestic dogs have died in the western district of Moscow since mid-January – local residents blame dog hunters and are posting photographs of “pink” snow (this is how animal abusers distribute poison). Moscow Yabloko is calling the incidents systematic crimes and demanding an immediate […]
Posted: January 26th, 2026 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov spoke at a rally in defence of Lake Baikal in Irkutsk
Press Release, 27 December 2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke at a rally against the law on clear-cutting at Lake Baikal, which President Vladimir Putin signed on 15 December. During his speech, Rybakov spoke about the cynicism of the deputies who introduced this law and recalled the investigation […]
Posted: December 29th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.
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Nikolai Rybakov has been asked not to use environmental agenda to organise ‘protest activities’
Press Release, 22 December 2025 Photo: Lake Baikal / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov has received an email from the Russian Ecological Society following his publication of a post criticising the law on logging at Lake Baikal. Rybakov was urged to “refrain from any attempts to use the environmental […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office punish animal abusers from the DogTown shelter in Chekhov, the Moscow region
Press Release, 16.09.2025 Photo: Conditions at the DogTown shelter / Photo from the Mona Telegram channel Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov sent an appeal to Public Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, demanding punishment for animal abusers – the owners of the DogTown dog shelter.
Posted: September 18th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Judiciary, Protection of Environment.
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Yabloko party chairman Nikolai Rybakov travelled to the Pskov Region to support Yabloko candidates in the municipal elections
Press Release, 7.09.2025 Photo: Nikolai Rybakov with candidate for Pskov City Duma in district No. 3 Andrei Tsatsenko during door-to-door campaining in Pskov On 2 and 3 September, Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, together with head of the party Analytical Centre Ivan Bolshakov and head of the party staff Yevgenia Vlasova, visited the Pskov Region […]
Posted: September 10th, 2025 under Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko programme for 14 September 2025 elections in the Novgorod region
Press Release, 14.08.2025 Novgorod Yabloko published its programme for the regional and local elections in the Novgorod Region due on 14 September 2025. The Novgorod branch of the party states that Yabloko is participating in the elections in order to achieve the following goals:
Posted: August 14th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Foreign policy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, YABLOKO against Corruption, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The threat humanity faces again. Yabloko hosted a screening and discussion of the film “Children of Hiroshima”
Press Release, 7.08.2025 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 6 August, on the tragic 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the central office of the Yabloko party in Moscow hosted a screening of the documentary film by Japanese film director Kaneto Shindo “Children […]
Posted: August 7th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Foreign policy, History, Human Rights, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russia-US Relations, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.
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Nikolai Rybakov: Yabloko candidates at elections of any level conduct a political campaign on the key issue of the country’s development
RIA Tomsk, 24.07.2025 Interview by Valentina Ankudinova Photo: Nikolai Rybakov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service The Yabloko party has determined candidates for elections to the Tomsk City Duma, which will take place in September. On the eve, a pre-election conference took place in the city, attended by party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov. In an […]
Posted: July 24th, 2025 under Economy, Education and Science, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Healthcare, Housing and Utilities Reform, Human Rights, Political Parties, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Russian Economy, Social Policies, Yabloko Against the Government's Pension Reform, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Youth Policies, Без рубрики.
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A voice for Peace and Freedom will be heard in Kostroma City Duma elections
Press Release, 15.07.2025 Photo: Alexander Lazutin / Photo from the personal archive Yabloko has nominated Alexander Lazutin, Chairman of the Kostroma regional branch of Yabloko and General Director of the agricultural enterprise Shunga, as a candidate for the Kostroma City Duma elections. The candidate has three days left to collect 50 signatures in support of […]
Posted: July 15th, 2025 under Elections, Environmental Policies, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2025, Social Policies, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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The Ministry of Natural Resources of Udmurtia will provide Yabloko with data on the quality of drinking water in Izhevsk
Press Release, 18.06.2025 Photo: Izhevsk Pond / Photo by Vyacheslav Bukharov, Wikimedia Commons The appeal to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic of Udmurtia was sent on the initiative of Elizaveta Khusnutdinova, a member of the regional Bureau of the Yabloko branch in Udmurtia. Yabloko is requesting information about the quality of water […]
Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Andrei Talevlin on Chernobyl Tragedy Remembrance Day: Humanity is not ready for full-scale use of nuclear energy
Blog post by Andrei Talevlin, 25.04.2025 Due to the explosion of the RBMK-1000 reactor (uranium-graphite channel type reactor) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 39 years ago, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory in the former Soviet Union and other countries were contaminated with hazardous materials. As a result, a significant number of […]
Posted: April 25th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Russia-Eu relations, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Sergei Mitrokhin held a meeting-lecture on the organisation of civil society in counteracting the merger of business and government
Press Release, 22.04.2025 Can citizens safely and effectively resist the oligarchic system while protecting their rights? Sergei Mitrokhin’s answer is “yes, they can”. Sergei Mitrokhin, the second Chairman of Yabloko, a deputy of the State Duma of three convocations and a deputy of the Moscow City Duma of two convocations, spoke at a meeting in […]
Posted: April 22nd, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Elections, Environmental Policies, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko to host Sergei Mitrokhin’s lecture on organization of civil society
Press Release, 10.04.2025 Photo from Sergei Mitrokhin’s Telegram channel On 17 April, Yabloko will host a lecture by the second Chairman of Yabloko Sergei Mitrokhin on “Organisation of Civil Society in Counteracting the Merger of Business and Power”. Sergei Mitrokhin will explain how the oligarchic system affects the rights of Moscow residents and will demonstrate […]
Posted: April 10th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Governance, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019, Protection of Environment, Regional policies and Local Self-Governing, Yabloko in the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Federal bill on killing animals is being considered by the parliaments in Russian regions. Yabloko appeals to deputies with a request not to support cruelty
Press Release, 17.03.2025 Photo by zastavkin/depositphotos In late February, a bill “On Responsible Treatment of Animals” was introduced to the State Duma. It gives the right to the Russian regions to independently set the time limits for keeping homeless animals in shelters, after which cats and dogs will be euthanised. The State Duma will make […]
Posted: April 1st, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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An alternative plan for constructing a road in the Moscow region, developed by Yabloko’s Kirill Yankov, has been sent to the Russian government
Press Release, 18.02.2025 Photo: Kirill Yankov / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service An alternative plan for a new entrance to the city of Korolyov, developed by Kirill Yankov, a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation and a member of the Party Arbitration of the Yabloko party, […]
Posted: February 20th, 2025 under Environmental Policies, Governance, Human Rights, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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